Deliverables (4 years)

1
Outcome of the Working Group N. 4

• Brain storming
• problems
• Effect of increased of T on determining water
  crop demand although is not the most important
  factor
• Effect of vegetative seasons
• The lack of integration of UWU into WUE/WP
  practices
• Protected cultures like Green Houses we can help
  to reach maximization of WP, but problem is
  landscape and contamination
• If WUE-WP is not part of an environmental policy
  it can have negative effects on the environment
  reallocation for environmental purposes
• Increased efficiency is driven too much by profit
  and not balanced with the need of a clean
  ecosystem (ex. increase vegetation cover)
• There is little awareness of use of surface
  runoff and its integration in WUE.
• Problem of capacity building and participatory
  approach in regard to the use of WUE to improve
  environemental conditio ns
• There is a lack of a comprehensive framework to
  insert agriculture in the ecosystem flows
• No enough technology for rainfed agriculture
• Lack of education awarness among producers and
  users of the link which is possible between WUE
  and environmental sustainability, like for
  example the quality of product and health
• Lack of reliable information on the results of
  applied WUE on environment.
• Difficulties in accounting the total
  environmental breakdown of costs and not only the
  financial cost of water efficiency measures
• Difficult quantification of saved water volume at
  the relevant scale -) monitoring devices, -)
  integration of hydrology

2

• ENVIRONMENTAL (ecosystem health)
• improved knowledge and tools to determine true
  water volumes saved from water bodies
  abstraction due to WUE WP
• deeper understanding of farm-collective-catchment
  hydraulic relationships if we want to know
  effective impact of WUEWP on natural resources
• upscaling and time-scaling (scenario) development
  to enhance WUE WP and climate mitigation
• getting information about use of practices having
  an impact on the environment -) amount of
  public money spent at national or local level -)
  local devices and tools to retrieve information
• More integration of surface runoff and UWU in the
  WUE-WP goals reduce impact on quality, improve
  water saving in general
• ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMIC (eco-efficiency)
• use total natural (environmental) and material
  (economic) resources in the WP yield
  accountantship
• Increased efficiency is driven by the right
  balance of profit and the need/cost of a clean
  ecosystem
• Consideration of the total environmental
  breakdown of costs and not only the financial
  cost of water efficiency measures

3

• ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIAL (cohesion and ecosystem
  sanitation)
• plot experimentation or demonstration available
  to farmers
• capability of post-experimentation follow-up
• increase N. of patents on sustainable WUE WP
  technology
• adaptation of traditional WUE WP to market and
  globalisation needs innovative WUEWP
• improved land use and water used management
• ENVIRONMENTAL-INSTITUTIONAL (improve care)
• improve the co-decision process, thus
  strengthening participatory WUE-WP with regard to
  environmental monitoring planning and
  implementation
• capability to pay for public hearing regarding
  WUE-WP strategy and programming
• institutional and farmer capability to pay and
  implement WUE-WP monitoring at farm level,
  accounting for the collective and catchment
  levels care of response of the relevant water
  body
• effective insert of WUE WP in preventive
  planning for long-term drought periods (improve
  knowledge, share knowledge, planning capacity)
• Increased integration of WUE-WP is environmental
  policy. Possible indicators reallocation for
  environmental purposes (forestation, aquifer
  recharge.)